MS-DOS 4

From Larry Osterman's blog [http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/03/22/94209.aspx] comes this little known fact about DOS 4.0, I wonder how different the operating landscape would have been if this came ever made it to market?> DOS 4 was a preemptive

Speech on your Mac

MacDevCenter [http://www.macdevcenter.com] has a great article [http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/17/speech.html] regarding speech in OSX, and how its evolved over the years. There are some great tips on how to take advantage of this little used feature as well. I&

If I want sushi in NYC where do I go?

Ok lets pretend I'm in New York City and I want sushi. Thanks to local.google.com [http://local.google.com] I can now find out all the sushi joints in Manhattan [http://local.google.com/local?q=sushi&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&

Running

I am so excited because on Sunday I finished my first ever 5K race in Toronto! In January I was looking for something to do this year that would be challenging so I decided to choose running. Having grown up with bad knees and flat feet I always avoided running.

Swearing in code

A while back Jason was talking about swearing in the linux source code [http://jason.sdf1.net/archives/002333.html]. It appears that some people have taken it upon themselves to graph the swear words [http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/] to see what comes out on top and for

Female and want an iPod? Here is your chance

Boing Boing [http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/16/ipod_on_offer_in_exc.html] brings us another great story about a boy who wants a girl [http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bar/26413982.html], even if its just for one weekend.> I'm having my parents come

Hail to the IBM

Jason Scott blogs [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000033.html] about corporate artifacts, in one of his links is one of the funniest examples of such things. The IBM Song Book [http://www.etypewriters.com/ibmsongs.htm] is just that a book of songs about IBM. Here is a snippet

The American flag in advertising

"It turns out that George W. Bush's website is in violation of the United States Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 3. He owes $100, or thirty days in jail." Says Skippy [http://www.skippy.net/blog/index.php?p=79] on Boing Boing [http://www.

Is it really illegal if you pay for it??

So the other day I got a call from Bell Sympatico. They wanted to sell me a new service that they offer. The guy explained to me that for $9.95 a month I would be able to listen to an unlimited amount of CD quality music from over 10

St. George vs the iPod

In a classic battle between good and err... good? Hmmm, Maybe I should rethink the intro to this story!? St. George, a saint, a street, a subway station, and an iPod ad! (thats better) How can a subway station here in Toronto become one big advertisement for the iPod? They